By Joe R. McBride
The function of this booklet is to check city forests in towns worldwide. it's going to ask questions on the heritage, composition, constitution, and administration of bushes in city components. info for this publication used to be accrued in 33 towns throughout extensive geographical components referred to as biomes. Constraints and possibilities imposed on city woodland composition, layout, and administration via the ecological features of those biomes can be tested. The e-book also will handle the cultural and historic elements that encouraged the features of city forests round the world.
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No evidence exists for street trees or for the equivalent of public parks where trees may have grown. The common people living in these cities had very limited outdoor space around their dwellings. This outdoor space was used for a variety of activities, but seldom was large enough for the planting of vegetables let alone trees. At the workmen’s villages at Amarna and Mirgissa walled areas adjacent to the houses contained grids of square growing pits (about 12 inch by 12 inch by 6 inch deep) carved into the bedrock.
30 4 History Fig. 3 Secoton (Redrawn from John White, c. 1585) The image of Secoton is not unlike present day indigenous villages in the Amazon Basin of South America. Quechuan villages in the Amazon region of Ecuador included fruit-bearing trees and small kitchen gardens. Trees present on the sites prior to construction of the villages, or planted subsequently, are maintained as a source of fruit. Small kitchen gardens are planted adjacent to the houses, while larger areas for crop production were cultivated at the margins of the village.
Grass and trees were planted around the thermea (social centers with public baths), libraries, and recreation grounds for the benefit of the general public. Pliny the Elder (77 AD) notes that in addition to booty and slaves, trees were “among the captives” in the triumphal processions of Roman generals returning from campaigns in the eastern Mediterranean and Asiatic provinces. Pliny specially mentions cherry, peach, apricot, and pistachio trees being among the “captives”. These were planted in the villas of the generals and enhanced the agriculture of the western portions of the Roman Empire.